170 user comments

Comments posted by susan from United States, March 11, 2006:
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Burnt with Samsung TS-H552B at 4x Burning reliability is Poor. Media color is Silver. Media text is Memorex it it live or is it memorex. Media package type is Cake Box. Number of discs 10.

Comments posted by red-x from United States, February 20, 2006:
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Burnt with Samsung TS-H552B at 4x using firmware GAO4. Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Good. Media color is Silver. Media text is memorex is it live or is it memorex 4x DVD+R Recordable 4.7GB memorex.com 120 MINIUTE VIDEO. Media package type is Cake Box. Number of discs 10. Works fine on Aeso PDVD-8088Works fine on Apex AD-1100W

Comments posted by red from United States, February 11, 2006:
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Burnt with Samsung TS-H552B at 4x Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Good. Media color is Silver. Media text is memorex is it live or is it memorex 4x DVD+R Recordable 4.7GB memorex.com 120 MINIUTE VIDEO. Media package type is Cake Box. Number of discs 15. Works fine on Apex AD-1100W

Comments posted by dou from United States, January 04, 2006:
No comments

Comments posted by Stonecolddsl from Sweden, October 19, 2004:
Media works great at 4x. with HP 630i burner.

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Price: $10 Purchased from: Wallgreens Date purchased: October 2004 Burnt with HP DVD630i at 4x using firmware 8h26. Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Good. Console reliability is Good. Media color is Silver Gray. Media text is Memorex on top underneth Is it live or is it memorex to he left 4x then RW under neth the RW is DVD+R to the Left it says DVD+R. Media package type is DVD Box. Number of discs 5. Media made in Taiwan. Media UPC/EAN code is 3470705592. Authoring/Burning comments:Authored with DVD Shrink burned with Nero 6 Works fine on GoVideo DVP853

Comments posted by jly from United States, October 16, 2004:
These were RicohJpn R01 disks. Been pretty lucky with Memorex disks and have always gotten RicohJpn and not CMC unlike some others that have been reported. Previously was buying the same type disks at OM. I usually avoid packs larger than 25 unless I'm absolutely sure it's NOT CMC. Very happy with the quality of these disks so far :)

Comments posted by tamgelikah from United States, October 12, 2004:
I want to thank Kalina's 05-16-04 post for the info on how to distinguish/find RICOHJPNR01 Memorex media vs RITEK and CMC.

The "real" manufacturer does make a huge difference (at least to me). The RICOH's burn and play great, but they are now the least available. I checked many many stores and was lucky to find a few here and there. Seems like Memorex to save some money is now predominantly only using RITEK and CMC. They probably are like 1 cent cheaper to Memorex but multiplying that by millions is a lot. Problem is, that 1 cent shows up big time to the consumer world when the RITEK and CMC don't burn right.

Now to be fair, I have not personally tested MEMOREX RITEK but we've all read the reviews and they are adequate at best. The MEMOREX CMC media has been blasted in the past but is now getting some "decent" feedback and I have to admit I haven't used Memorex CMC but I just recently tested/burned some TDK CMC and it was horrible and they actually are the same media (both are media code: CMC MAG.F01). 11 imperfect burns of 15. The DVDs would start at some weird scence from the movie/show with subtitles and you would have to "next" to get to the title screen. Not a single RICOH had that problem and nothing changed but the media.

So don't take a risk, my personal experiences say RICOH and the bulk of the reviews are highly positive on RICOH. So jump on some now ... Office Depot has a buy one get one free on Memorex 4x good until 10/16 so go to your local store and hope they have a few RICOH's left - the one with the table on the side... odds are they'll only have the RITEC - Red bars on side or CMC - Purple Bars on side. You'll thank me later ... Good luck finding some.

Comments posted by Don Reeves from United States, September 09, 2004:
Plays on Panasonic RV32 but has lots of pixilation and delays making it unwatchable. The DVD does work in the 4 computers I tested and my daughters portable DVD player...tried burning at 4x, 2.4x, & 2.0x with no luck.

Comments posted by Shoes from United States, July 22, 2004:
I have been so far unable, through several attmpts, to play backed up movies. Im using plextor 708a with dvdx copy express and different dvd players. They appear to work for data backup

Comments posted by FeMaster from United States, April 21, 2004:
No comments

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Burnt with Sony DRU-530A at 4x using firmware 2.0A. Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Good. Media color is Silver. Media text is Memorex Is it Live or is it memorex 4X DVD+r www.memorex.com DVD+R recordable 4.7GB 120 minute video. Media package type is Cake Box. Number of discs 25. Media made in Taiwan. Works fine on Toshiba SD4800

Comments posted by brad endsley from United States, April 18, 2004:
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Comments posted by geekeleh from United States, March 14, 2004:
Will only work in my Mintek 1600 player if bit setting is used and the book type is set to dvd-rom by the lite-on book type setting utility available for lite-on drives at the liteonit web site. Then it works fine. Otherwise, you have a coaster.

Comments posted by cortem01 from United States, March 14, 2004:
GREAT DISCS! I ONLY USE MEMOREX OR TDK. WHEN BUYING MEMOREX DVD+R MAKE SURE THE CAKE BOX HAS A BLACK BOTTOM, IF IT GRAY THEY WILL PROBABLY TURN OUT TO BE SOME OTHER CRAPPY MEDIA. THESE EVEN WORK IN AN OLD FIRST RUN RCA HOME DVD PLAYER. SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY, A DOLLAR A DISC IS WELL WORTH IT!!!

Comments posted by Sergio from United States, March 07, 2004:
I bougth a 50 disc spindle from amazon.com for $47.00, so far I burned 10 with no problems. I have a TDK 4X 420N burner and a TDK 8X 840G burner. Every single DVD was tested in three different players (SONY, PANASONIC, and PHILIPS) and four different computers each one with different players (Lite-on, Toshiba, and Samsung)they all worked like a charm. I used DVD identifier and they are DVD+R:RICOHJPN-R01-002. I highly recommend this media. Today, March 7, Amazon has the 100 disc spindle for $85.00 with free shipping they seem to be the ones made by RICOH.

Comments posted by Tux from Canada, March 06, 2004:
Beware of the purple Memorex 5-pack boxes on special @ $7.95/box at Future Shop in Canada. The 5-pack boxes used to be RICOH (RICOHJPNR01 media ID code) impeccable prime quality media.

NOT ANYMORE!!

The discs they sell in those 5-packs are now the same cheap unreliable CMC MAG F01's with micro-pinholes in the dye layer than the ones in the Memorex purple-label 25-stacks!! Seems like Future Shop is trying to dump crappy media on unsuspecting consumers again. >:(

If it's too good to be true, it probably isn't. TG I only bought 1 box. The first one out of the box: I burned it @4X and it produced pixellation in the Video at the very beginning of the disc: garbage!

I burned 2 more but @2.4x to be safe. I watched the entire movie on each disc to be sure and they worked ok. Bottom line: don't burn those @4X

There should be a law requiring disc manufacturers to print the media ID code on their packages. Otherwise, the consumers will never be able to tell what they're REALLY buying.

Comments posted by LouV68 from United States, March 02, 2004:
No coasters I've burned 9 out of 10 so far with a Lite-On LDW-451s...1 more to go. All discs play fine on both my Sony DVP-C670D and Panasonic DVD-RV30

Comments posted by BurnBabyBurn from United States, February 20, 2004:
Media is "pearlescent" or basically a shiny purplish color. Bought these in 25(x3), 50(x2), and 100pks(x1, received today) from CompUSA or Amazon for about $1 each on sale only. Black or grey spindles, purple/yellow/white labels on all. The 100pk spindle from Amazon bought 02/04/04 have white faces and are "Printable". All excellent media on my Optorite DD0203, only 2 or 3 coasters so far, mostly my fault. :) Been lucky to get only the Ricoh RICOHJPNR01 media from Memorex.

Comments posted by Nate Anderson from United States, January 18, 2004:
Bought both Memorex media and some cheap branded media. With the cheap stuff I was 1 for 10. Don't buy cheap media go with the name brand! I am so far 18 for 20 with my Memorex media. I will continue to buy Memorex even if it is a little more expensive.

Comments posted by sonnyll from United States, January 17, 2004:
Bought these at wal-mart, have lost 6 discs in 1st 25 spindle. My latest have lost 1 out of 11 so far getting better but will be getting Ritek soon!

Comments posted by jeffd from Other, January 16, 2004:
Media works wonderfully, but costs a little bit much. I try to get them on sale, when the 50-pack spindles are $50. Works at 4x burning, plays back on everything I've tried.

Comments posted by godel9 from Other, January 11, 2004:
I was not able to burn this media at 8x, and it did not work in my XBox when I burned it at 4x. I also had trouble with some MMC 4x DVD+R discs from Verbatim in the same box, so I'm not sure what the problem is exactly.

Comments posted by DZRhino from Other, January 08, 2004:
No problems with 40 disks burned so far. Only coasters were software related. Speed seems to be around 4X up to 8X with 6x on average. Note that Plextor does variable rate burning and can achieve 8x on some 4x media, the Ricoh media one that can achieve 8x in their tests.

Comments posted by bdayberr from Other, January 06, 2004:
Burnt at least 10 so far, DVD plays fine in both Xbox and PS2, as well as the cheapest DVD Player Wal-mart had on sale. Highly recomended. Only $36 for a 25 spindle!! Thats $1.44 a DVD, pretty good for Memorex.

Comments posted by Turner Harness from Other, January 06, 2004:
I have used Fugi, Imation, Memorex and Verbatim. Of these, Memorex has produced fewer problems and their replacement policy is great if you have a problem. The others are a pain.

Comments posted by ty1er from Other, January 04, 2004:
so far i have burned around 25 of the discs and havent ran into any problems or errors with them.

i have have a first generation xbox that will play the disc but seems to have a difficult time tring to read them. somethimes a movie will skip towards the end of the disc.

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Price: $1.2 Purchased from: bestbuy Date purchased: November 2003 Burnt with Plextor PX-504A at 4x using firmware 1.01. Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Good. Console reliability is Mixed. Media color is Silver. Media text is is is it alive or is it memorex?. Authoring/Burning comments:burned with nero 6.0.0.19, and DVD Decrypter. Works fine on Samsung DVD-V3650Does not work on Philips DVD950

Comments posted by Rich from Other, January 04, 2004:
Ive burned 25 of these and only made 2 coasters. Both of them were my fault!
Excellent media, great value (25 for $25.00 on sale)..

Comments posted by Steve S. from Other, December 30, 2003:
So far, 6 burns using DVD X Copy Xpress and no coasters. Great quality video and sound. The only drawback is the price for a name brand, so I'm going to give Princo Media a shot since they are half the price.

Comments posted by dtsl06 from Other, December 19, 2003:
Plex at 8x and the first 5/25 worked without a problem. Was so impress with them went out and bought 100 more (RICOHJPNR01). Cost more initaily since these are retail jewel box discs then generic spindels but pays off on long run since Ive been having a lot of problems with both PRINCO and Optodisc where 1 outa 2 discs fails (near the end/outer edges). The retail jewel box discs are on sale at the FutureShop (Canada) right now and they are the 5 for 9.99. Thats just 20 cents more then what I was paying for 4x generic spendles. Added the fact that these burn at 8x with the Plex writer is a big bonus where the PRINCO/Optodisc can hardly work at 4x or 2x....

Comments posted by Owen from Other, December 19, 2003:
My Sony DRU510A loves these Memorex & other Ricoh type disc. They burn quickier than any other media types, less than 30seconds to initialize the burning process & finalizes the burn very quick too.

Comments posted by jesse from Other, November 27, 2003:
works great with my sony dru500a drive

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Price: $2 Purchased from: best buy Date purchased: November 2003 Burnt with Sony DRU-500A at 4x using firmware 1.0f. Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Good. Console reliability is Good. Media color is Silver. Media text is Memorex 4x dvd+r recordable 4.7gb 120 minute. Authoring/Burning comments:dvd xcopy works great. Can take an 8gb dvd movie and compact it down to fit on a 4gb dvd recordable without any loss of quality. Works fine on Sony Playstation 2Does not work on Sansui VRDVD4000

Comments posted by Luis Bunuel from Other, November 14, 2003:
i think memorex + media has gone very cheaply very quickly. after wonderful initial success with some spindles purchased 2 months ago, a recent purchase for new media has led me to believe the newest memorex discs are of inferior quality to previous ones. i post mainly to identify the difference in packaging between the older and newer discs so that people can check before purchasing.

first let me be clear: if you can find the older memorex 4x discs cheaply, i highly advise purchasing them, they are excellent media. the newest manufactured spindles, however, have serious quality control problems. they do NOT burn at 4x. well, maybe some of them do, but i didn't want to make any more coasters than the 5 i've already made to see whether any burn at 4x. these discs don't seem to have any errors when i check them with DVDinfo, and they play back on my dvd players fine, but they MUST be burned at 2.4x instead of 4x.

the new bad RICOH discs are distinguishable in 1 way, and 1 way alone (both have the RICOH media code): on the bottom of the spindle there is a 5 inside arrows forming a triangle with "PP" written beneath it; on top of the spindle there is the same thing. on the newest, BAD discs, the 5PP on the top is small and the one on the bottom is bigger. on the older, EXCELLENT discs, the 5pp on top is big and the one on the bottom is smaller.

i do not know if these findings translate to the 50 pack spindles or not, but the moral of the story is that unless you can physically examine these markings on the spindle to make sure you are getting the older stock, i would not purchase these discs.

Comments posted by STEVE from Other, November 05, 2003:
Bought 40 discs so far, beware of opaque spot near edge of disc, as I had to burn no more than 4 GB to avoid coaster. That was just poor quality control.

Comments posted by sriramgopalan from Other, October 14, 2003:
Bought a ten pack from BestBuy - no problems so far. Burned many DVDs perfectly with my NEC 1300A and they all play without any problem on my AMW V101 player. Highly recommended media.